Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Installation Guide

System Requirements

Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software supports the hardware and operating system requirements shown in Table 1–1.

Note –

For further disk space requirements and important last minute information about this release, see the release notes at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/821-0080.

Table 1–1 System Requirements


	Solaris OS on SPARC based systems	Solaris OS on x86 based systems	Linux OS on x86 based systems
Operating system	Solaris 10 1/06 and subsequent Solaris 10 OS updates OpenSolaris 2008.11 and 2009.06 (when installed from the OpenSolaris release repository)		SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 CentOS 5 Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3
CPU	Sun UltraSPARC-based systems Fujitsu SPARC64 platform-based systems	32 and 64 bit systems (Pentium class or newer) based on AMD and Intel x86 CPUs
Memory	Recommended: 1 to 2 GB Minimum: 512 MB (more may be needed for working with large projects in the IDE)
Disk space (Use the `df -k` command to check your disk space.)	1.35 GB	926 MB	633 MB
Swap space	Recommended: 2 to 4 GB Minimum: 1 GB To add swap space to your system, see Adding Swap Space
Operating system configuration	For the Solaris 10 OS: Entire Solaris Software Group Plus OEM Support, Entire Solaris Software Group, or Developer Solaris Software Group (To determine your operating system configuration, you need to verify the installed packages. Specific packages are installed for each configuration. See the Solaris OS installation documentation for more details.)		Linux OS must include the Development/Libraries Package Group.